This semester I’m taking a class called Urban Ecology with Dr. James Heffernan. We’ve had some pretty good discussions about nature and cities in this class, and it’s made me think. I tend to thinkContinue reading
Category: forests
Forests
The Missing Sink
Growing forests remove CO2 from the atmosphere, mitigating the global warming problem brought on by fossil fuel combustion.
Meagan Knowlton
environmental economics, environmental health, environmental policy, faculty, forests, students, water, WRM
environmental economics, environmental health, environmental policy, faculty, forests, students, water, WRM
What is a Water?
How can we translate between water and regulatory decisions when water speaks so many languages?
Ian Markham
alumni, conservation, Duke Marine Lab, environmental health, ESC, forests, marine studies, students, sustainability, travel
alumni, conservation, Duke Marine Lab, environmental health, ESC, forests, marine studies, students, sustainability, travel
Stirrings in the deep
Diving in the Kelp forest mostly brings me a tranquility I find hard to come by elsewhere. Yet in my past three months working at the Hopkin’s Marine Station of Stanford University first as the teaching assistant in a kelp forest Ecology course and then as a diving technician, I have observed strange stirrings and shifts in the kelp forest that give me anxiety.
Anne Martin
alumni, climate, conservation, energy, environmental economics, environmental health, environmental policy, ESC, forests, students, sustainability, water
alumni, climate, conservation, energy, environmental economics, environmental health, environmental policy, ESC, forests, students, sustainability, water
Agriculture’s Contribution to Climate Change
While I wholeheartedly embrace new standards on power plants and the transportation sector, I am dismayed at the way in which we seem to be ignoring other major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.
Watching autumn leaves fall
We need to think of leaves as a resource and not a waste product.
Chase Discomfort, Not Elephants: Reflections from Summer
I’m creeping through a forest in Gabon. Chasing elephants. Dangerous, enormous elephants.
Teaching biodiversity
My goal is to open these students’ eyes to astounding nature sitting right in their ‘backyards,’ to use these local resources as teaching tools for global biodiversity challenges.
Plumbing the origins of lead in nature.
The history of lead pollution is the opening chapter in the history of human impacts on global biogeochemistry.